OR #8: Today, I read a poem called "The Meeting" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This poem is from a book called Good Poems and the poems were selected by Garrison Keillor. This poem is about friends and family getting together for Christmas and New years. It should be a happy time, but the poem says that everyone is feeling sad because they are remembering the ones who have died in the past year and how they're not able to be with them this Christmas. I think that this probably happened to the author, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and he is remembering how sad it was for him. I also think that he has a pretty awesome name.